Reevaluating Amdahl's law in the multicore era

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-188

  Sun, Xian He ^a   Chen, Yong ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory wall; Multicore architecture; Scalability; Scalable computing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACCESS; HARDWARE COST; MEMORY WALL; MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURE; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; MULTICORE CHIPS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; SCALABLE COMPUTING; UPPER BOUND;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 72749104957     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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